House Visit

Cutter's Log - Stardate 2102.02.20
Current Song - The Way (Fastball)

I'm about 80% committed to getting a house of my own.

Well, it's not technically my own. My grandparents own it.

I went through the house yesterday to get a sense of where the rooms are at. It's pretty much one story plus a basement, with the second story being an attic.

It's the SE corner of 12th Avenue and 2nd Street in Sterling, just a few blocks down from where I live now. My cousin Joshua and his wife lived there previously. Just a short walk across my side lawn, one more back yard and then 1st Street is my grandparents' house. My brother Chris is three blocks across and then two blocks up. So I'm not too far away from home.

The house has got to be at least 100 years old, with the outside looking like the same concrete foundation seen on some houses along Leroy Avenue in Rock Falls (the only way I can describe it). The front door leads straight out to the corner of the block, giving the house a diamond "V" shape when looking at it.

There are two bedrooms: I'll be sleeping in the larger one and I'll be using the smaller one as my office. This may be a small house by size standards, but I think I'll have more than enough room to work with. The attic and basement are pretty much storage areas for things I don't have now, but once I get settled in I think I'll find a use for these.

Lately I've been making a list of household starter things: such as dish soap, a vaccum cleaner, silverware, etc. Then there's groceries, and I'm just going to feel my way through it. Then there's the really big stuff, since this is an unfurnished place: something to sit on, a television, fridge, microwave, stove (maybe), kitchen table/chairs, lawnmower, etc.

I have a feeling that once I get couch and television in my living room, the rest of the room is going to be a blank void. I'm not one for "blank" living quarters. I get this from my mom. Our living room has a bunch of decorations, fake plants, chimes and such.

My office, for sure, won't be a "blank" room. I'm already picturing that in my mind -

The office is about 7 feet one way and 10 feet the other, and is carpeted. I got my desk (my great-great grandmother's) in the middle of the room with a chair behind it and a chair in front of it for visitors to my office. For the walls, I have saved up these high school sports programs over the years that I really have no use for other than posterity sake, so I want to cut the covers off of them, put them on posterboard and try to fill the walls with them. 

That leaves room for my college sportswriting awards, my diploma and degree, and a space for a team pic of my favorite high school sports team EVER. I just need to find one, as I don't have one : (